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February 13, 2026

Europe’s most active secondary investors

Europe’s scaleups are doing more secondaries, but who are the top investors?


Tom Matsuda and Hessa Alabbas

3 min read

Bpifrance

Startup secondary deals — which see existing investors or employees sell shares they have in a company — have picked up in recent years. 

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Tom Matsuda

Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

Hessa Alabbas

Hessa Alabbas is a data analyst at Sifted, based in London. You can find her on LinkedIn.

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